Herbert Halpert (August 23, 1911 – December 29, 2000) was an American anthropologist and folklorist, specialised in the collection and study of both folk song and narrative.
[2] Herbert Norman Halpert's interest in folklore emerged in his adolescence and remained throughout his life.
[3] After the conflict, he became Professor and Head of the Department of English at Murray State College, in Kentucky, where he encouraged his students to collect local traditions.
Between 1956 and 1960, he became Dean and Professor of English and Sociology at Blackburn College, in Illinois.
[2] In the autumn of 1962, Halpert became associate professor of English at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), where in 1968, he founded the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) and developed most of the work in folklore that became internationally renowned.